Week 2, Entry 10
Jun. 5th, 2022 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goatgodschildMalcolm's birthday is tomorrow. I know he doesn't want to be around me until I can prove to be a better person, and I don't want to push his boundaries, so I am not going to send any wishes to him. I hope that he has a really good birthday, and that this next year is amazing for him. I hope there are many things that will make him smile.
The omens look good for me to reach out again, but I don't want to rush things. So, I am going to write down something funny and wonderful that happened to me today.
I tend to tell people that it was Tenchi Muyo 2: Daughter of Darkness that turned me off anime for a decade. And, strictly speaking, that's not wrong. The DVD box set my dad got from the library did include Tenchi Muyo 2: Daughter of Darkness, but there was another DVD in the box. However, as I could never find its name, or remember more than a few key images, I did not mention it.
A man watches (or creates) monsters in a bamboo forest. The creatures start off by looking round and pink, then explode into horrible zombie things. They are clearly not enjoying the process.
...
Two girls, both lonely, agree to meet up at a playground the next day. One of them turns into a monster (dark red, snake hair, slug/snake hindparts -- a lamia?) and tries to get to the playground. The monster circles the playground, trying to play, and cries, for she can no longer speak.
...
A party of adventurers go into the forest. When monsters attack, [big-boobed lady with very small armor] shoots a single arrow into the air and yells "ARROW SHOWER". This makes a bunch of glowing arrows fall from the sky.
Thanks to some Escapade friends, I was able to find it at last, today. It's called Ragnarok: The Animation, and somehow I only saw episode 19. It is everything bad about Tenchi Muyo 2, plus the worst excesses of anime body horror.
I am of the opinion it is Bad Anime We've got five-plus minutes of padding on a 24 minute ep, we've got voice acting that could shatter glass, we've got heaving bosoms and pointless upskirt shots, we've got horrifying monsters and every cost-saving measure you've ever seen short of EVA. Horny, skeevy, a main character with no discernible characteristics but multiple women are fighting over him, and don't forget voices that can and will break glass. There's also an annoyingly "cute" little girl character and and equally annoyingly cute animal sidekick.
There's an evil skeleton wizard who turns cute animals into globby monsters, who turn into trees, who turn into zombie pirates. I am making none of this up.
The omens look good for me to reach out again, but I don't want to rush things. So, I am going to write down something funny and wonderful that happened to me today.
I tend to tell people that it was Tenchi Muyo 2: Daughter of Darkness that turned me off anime for a decade. And, strictly speaking, that's not wrong. The DVD box set my dad got from the library did include Tenchi Muyo 2: Daughter of Darkness, but there was another DVD in the box. However, as I could never find its name, or remember more than a few key images, I did not mention it.
A man watches (or creates) monsters in a bamboo forest. The creatures start off by looking round and pink, then explode into horrible zombie things. They are clearly not enjoying the process.
...
Two girls, both lonely, agree to meet up at a playground the next day. One of them turns into a monster (dark red, snake hair, slug/snake hindparts -- a lamia?) and tries to get to the playground. The monster circles the playground, trying to play, and cries, for she can no longer speak.
...
A party of adventurers go into the forest. When monsters attack, [big-boobed lady with very small armor] shoots a single arrow into the air and yells "ARROW SHOWER". This makes a bunch of glowing arrows fall from the sky.
I am of the opinion it is Bad Anime We've got five-plus minutes of padding on a 24 minute ep, we've got voice acting that could shatter glass, we've got heaving bosoms and pointless upskirt shots, we've got horrifying monsters and every cost-saving measure you've ever seen short of EVA. Horny, skeevy, a main character with no discernible characteristics but multiple women are fighting over him, and don't forget voices that can and will break glass. There's also an annoyingly "cute" little girl character and and equally annoyingly cute animal sidekick.
There's an evil skeleton wizard who turns cute animals into globby monsters, who turn into trees, who turn into zombie pirates. I am making none of this up.
